When it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another.

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

The early firings contained many stones.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.